"Good morning Nagoya!" The voice on Mikuru's radio shouted. She rolled over and stared at it, reading the clock. 8:00 AM. Did she even sleep last night? She couldn't remember even crawling into bed. That night's events were certainly still fresh in her head. Her first mission. Her killing Koto Atsushi. Her after-mission meal with Kakashi. Her being asked to continue wearing sexy dresses on the missions.
She was still struck curious by that question he asked...she'd have to go shopping to fulfill his wishes. Not like there was a problem with that. But why did he ask? Unless...
Knock knock knock.
"Hatake-sama!" Mikuru whispered, running to the door. She forgot she was still wearing her dress from earlier this morning. She swung the door open and looked up. Nothing.
Shit, Kotaro, she thought. She looked down and saw the pimply faced, black-haired fourteen year old staring up at her. Not her face, her boobs.
"I'm up here, Kotaro," she said loudly. He glanced up with a "huh" look on his face, and grinned. "What do you want?"
"I wanted to know where you went last night." She stared down at him and crinkled her nose.
"Why the hell do you wanna know?" she asked cockily.
"Just curious."
"I went to MOS Burger, okay? I didn't have any food in the house and I was hungry."
"Dressed like that?" he asked, pointing at her dress.
"I wanted to dress up," she resonded. "Any more questions?"
"Nope."
"Good. Now run along, I've got stuff to do."
Before Kotaro could respond, she had slammed the door in his face and leaned against the door. She looked down at her dress. It was probably a good idea to change before she left out.
Mikuru headed to her room and got a velvet jacket, polka-dotted mini skirt and a pair of jeans out of her closet; putting them on the bed gently. She opened up the three-drawer chest that belonged to her grandmother and grabbed an old, ragged t-shirt proclaiming her love of the American band The Rolling Stones. She pulled everything on and got her purse. Mikuru considered bringing her gun. Would she need it? She shrugged and grabbed her holster, securing it around her thigh.

"Good morning, Sanaka-san!" called Erika from her desk. "How did last night go? Have any fun afterward?"
Mikuru didn't break her stride as she walked to Kakashi's office, looking down at her cell phone. She stuffed it in her pocket, and glanced over her shoulder. Erika was staring at her from her desk with a smirk on her face.
"Shove it, Tanabata," Mikuru said snidely as she knocked on the door to Kakashi's office. She peeked into the window next to the door. He was waving her in. Not looking back to see the shocked look on Erika's face, Mikuru opened the door and walked in.
"Good morning, Mikuru-san," Kakashi said.
"Morning, Hatake-sama."
"I didn't see you at the park this morning."
"I slept in," she replied simply. "I-I'm here to get the paperwork done for last night."
"I already did it," Kakashi said. Mikuru looked up at him from rubbing her eyes, an awestruck look her face.
"I'm sorry?"
"I did it when I got in this morning." He motioned for her to sit down; and she did. Then, he pulled a piece of paper out of his top drawer and put it on the desk, nudging it forward.
"What's this?"
"Your paycheck." She took it and carefully opened it. Sure enough. A paycheck made out to Sanaka Mikuru for two hundred thousand yen. Not two hundred. Not a thousand. Two hundred thousand yen.
"Oh my god," she whispered.
"Not bad for a first paycheck," Kakashi said.
"Thank you."
"For what?"
"For employing me."
He stared at her curiously for a minute, and then nodded. "You're welcome." As he went back to working on her computer, he said, "would you like to accompany me to lunch later?"
Mikuru looked at him confusedly. Then she smiled and replied, "yeah, sure." She crossed her legs in the seat, adding, "I think I might go shopping beforehand though."
"Fine by me."
She got up and bowed to him. "See you at...?"
'How does 11:30 sound?"
"Sounds great," she responded with a smile.
"Ichiraku?" Kakashi asked. Mikuru replied by nodding. "11:30 at Ichiraku. See you there...Densetsu."
"I'll be waiting..." she trailed off until she reached the doorway to his office. "Yaseppochi."